Leonid Smirnov (politician)

Leonid Vasil’evich Smirnov (Russian: Смирнов, Леонид Васильевич) (3 April 1916 - 21 December 2001)[1] was director of the missile factory at Dnipropetrovsk in the late 1950s, developing strategic missiles for the defence of the USSR.[2] In March 1963 he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, reporting to Minister of Defence Dmitriy Ustinov.[2][3]

Early life

Smirnov was the son of a worker and was born on 3 April 1915 in Kuznetsk, a town to the west of Samara, Russia, then part of Saratov province but now in Penza Oblast.[1][3] He began his working life as an electrician in 1930 in Rostov-on-Don.[3]

He studied at the Novocherkassk Industrial Institute from 1933 to 1934 and graduated in 1939.[1][3] Whilst studying, he worked from 1933 to 1930 in Novocherkassk, first as a duty electrician and then as an electrical engineering inspector.[1]

Ministry of Armaments of the USSR

Smirnov worked for the Ministry of Armaments of the USSR from 1939 to 1961:[3]

Central government of the USSR

As deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, he was chairman of the Military Industrial Commission (VPK), reporting to Minister of Defence Dmitriy Ustinov.[2][7]

Smirnov retired in November 1985.[1]

Party congresses of the CPSU

He was a delegate to the following:

He was a deputy to the 6th-9th convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[3]

Awards

Smirnov was made a Hero of Socialist Labour,[2] and awarded the Lenin Prize in 1960, three Orders of Lenin, two other orders, and various medals.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991, Смирнов Леонид Васильевич(Handbook on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991, Leonid Smirnov)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 www.astronautix.com Nedelin
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979) Leonid Vasil’evich Smirnov.
  4. There is a disagreement between sources on the dates he held this post.
    Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991, Смирнов Леонид Васильевич says 1952-57.
    The Yuzhmash website says 1952-61.
    Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985, by Sergei I Zhuk, pub The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1 April 2010, ISBN 0-8018-9550-2, p20 says 1952-61.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Yuzhmash website » Museum » Directors » Smirnov L.
  6. 1 2 Yuzhmash website - development marks
  7. Russian strategic modernization: the past and future, by N. N. Sokov, pub Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, ISBN 0-8476-9467-4, p23.
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